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Speaker 1: Tom. It's Mutt, Jerry and Dickerson this morning. How are

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Speaker 1: you guys? Good morning, Uh, this is you've you've talked

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Speaker 1: You guys got out to a great start yesterday, scored

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Speaker 1: in the third play of the game, then from there

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Speaker 1: struggled offensively. What changed after that big opening touchdown, Well,

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Speaker 1: they gave up a big play. It looked like they

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Speaker 1: by Chris getting across the field and they blitzed, Uh,

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Speaker 1: and they just they a couple of guys went with

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Speaker 1: It was, you know, obviously the way we wanted to start.

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Speaker 1: And then uh, you know, we just you know, too many,

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Speaker 1: too many missed opportunities, you know, from there on out,

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Speaker 1: certainly with those drives after in the first half, and

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Speaker 1: came up short on a couple of third downs. And

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Speaker 1: I had a few other opportunities in the past game

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Speaker 1: just a frustrating day. Frustrating not to score. Um, you

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Speaker 1: know the kind of points out we're capable of scorn

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Speaker 1: obviously a frustrating finish. Tony Romo was guessing that maybe

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Speaker 1: Edelman was supposed to stop before the end zone on

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Speaker 1: the throat toe. It appears two receivers too close together

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Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of defenders. I know you're not

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Speaker 1: going to call out a teammate, but what went wrong

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Speaker 1: on that play? Well, it was it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: You're fighting the clock, you know, so you really it's

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Speaker 1: hard to throw the ball, you know, in the field

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Speaker 1: to play because you're not sure if you're going to

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Speaker 1: get another playoff. Even though we could have got maybe

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Speaker 1: a first down, right, you know, we didn't have enough time.

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Speaker 1: So they kind of fenced the goal line, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I was just telling guys, you know, try to find

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Speaker 1: a tough it's a tough play anyway you cut it.

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Speaker 1: So they got a lot of guys looking at the

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Speaker 1: you know they they played it well. Of all the

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Speaker 1: frustrating things yesterday, Tom, or maybe the penalties the most

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Speaker 1: frustrating thing for you guys. You know those those don't

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Speaker 1: those obviously those don't help. You know, those are they're

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Speaker 1: they're frustrating when you get them. I mean, there's it's

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Speaker 1: it's just really a lot of whether it's you know,

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Speaker 1: third down. You know, all those things are are you know,

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Speaker 1: keep you from scoring points. And the games about scoring points,

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Speaker 1: So anything that keeps you from scoring points is going

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Speaker 1: to be um, you know, detrimental team negative plays in

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Speaker 1: you try to play a clean game, keep the ball

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Speaker 1: moving forward. And uh, you know, we just have too

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Speaker 1: many missed opportunities. Well you you asked us at the

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think, Tom. The officiating sucks.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what holding is anymore. I obviously no

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Speaker 1: one knows what pass interference is anymore. And Jonathan Jones

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Speaker 1: PI was a good example of that. But half the

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Speaker 1: holding calls, I'm going he just had his arm out,

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Speaker 1: he didn't hold anybody. Do you guys understand what they're

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Speaker 1: looking for when they call holding, what they're looking at? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on the road, town, what what stands out? What has happened?

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Speaker 1: What has to be better on the road going forward?

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Speaker 1: And you know it's easier to do that at home.

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Speaker 1: I certainly don't feel like we can't win on the road.

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about, you know, playing on the road.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's a you know, it's just a

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Speaker 1: tough loss. We put a lot into it, or you know,

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Speaker 1: this year offensively, well, it's just you know, it's taken

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Speaker 1: And I think every week you learned, and it's you

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Speaker 1: learn right up through the end of the year. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we just dealt with a lot of different

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Speaker 1: situations and injuries and players coming in and out. And

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Speaker 1: the one positive if guys are healthy. And you know,

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Speaker 1: anytime you come out of a game healthy, that gives

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Speaker 1: you a pretty good chance the next week. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot of football ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: You know, we just got to go play really well

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Speaker 1: and you know, try to get this one against Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: which will be a big challenge, and then we'll you know,

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Speaker 1: see how things shake out. But hopefully we can hopefully

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Speaker 1: we can have a great game this week. I'll be

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Speaker 1: sawday Agellette, Tom, Thanks great, Thanks guys,